Toward surface-enhanced raman imaging of latent fingerprints

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1462-1470

  Connatser, R Maggie ^a   Prokes, Sharka M ^b   Glembocki, Orest J ^c   Schuler, Rebecca L ^c   Gardner, Charles W ^c   Lewis, Samuel A ^a   Lewis, Linda A ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ChemImage Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric core metal shell nanowires; Dispersible Raman substrates; Enhancement factor; Fingerprint degradation; Forensic science; Latent fingerprints; Macro Raman chemical imaging; Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMAN; NEBULIZER; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SWEAT;

COLLOIDS; DERMATOGLYPHICS; ELASTOMERS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; NANOPARTICLES; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; SILVER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SWEAT;

EID: 78149349585     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01484.x     Document Type: Article

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